To think some people on property shows are unrealistic?

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I was watching escape to the country the other day...a youngish couple, budget of about £600K, looking for a 'family house'. The one I saw them being shown was 4 bedrooms, garage, big garden, big kitchen diner. But all the way through they kept saying things like 'not big enough for a family', 'box room is too small' and so on.
I was brought up in a 3 bed semi, 5 of us, my brothers shared a room that is literally 10x10 feet, I was in the box room which only had room for my bed, and a tiny drawer unit. My parents were brought up in 2up/2 downs, when they had families of 9!
These people are nuts!

Oh my God that You Tube sketch . Totally wasn’t expecting that.

i was watching a revisit grand designs the other day it was the lighthouse on the hill one, they just kept running out of money and the budget just kept spiralling with hardly any building being done, on the final visit, the original couple had divorced, the lighthouse never got past two stories and hes now living in the smaller house they built to get the planning permission for the larger house

My family friends did not get pregnant hahaha but they did go massively over budget and have to borrow from family to finish. This was because of 2 things 1. The redesign which although did make a better space cost more and 2. His wife wanted a bespoke fitted kitchen with expensive flagstone tiles after she saw it in a house they took them too.
Really nice guy and is so doen to earth but they made them look ridiculous.

Our neighbours house was once on house in the country. When it was aired the couple looking round said they loved the house but didn’t like the look of the next door neighbour’s children’s climbing frame. my children’s

Do you really think that people who have a budget of £400k or £200k or even £40k care less about where they live than people with a £600k bigger? Of course they don’t! What a crazy idea

No - because that's not what I was suggesting

Very few people genuinely need to spend £600k on a house (outside of London, at least). If someone is choosing to pay that much, they're going to expect certain things in return for that. In the same way that if you decided to spend £2000 on a PC, you'd expect more than you'd get from a much cheaper netbook.

The Property Brothers

I especially love that part on every single episode of Grand Designs when it's February, the build is 5 months behind schedule, they've run out of money, the bespoke windows haven't arrived from Sweden, they've had to let the builders go, and the man is doing some drilling inside the bare building while a cold wind blows through the empty window holes.

Ah yes, MCloud. Some kind of fertility god shagger. My theory is that as he ages, he will start bringing disease and pestilence rather that unplanned pregnancy.

This comment is hilarious, thanks for the laugh @Her0utdoors

alpacas are nasty spitting bastards

Only to people if mistreated, I am reliably informed. (They do spit at each other.)

A friend of my brother's went on Escape to the Country and bought the mystery house.

I agree. Especially the large kitchen requirements

I'm currently watching Location. We're house hunting and having no luck, seriously starting to consider begging Phil and Kirstie for help :D We don't have much of a wish list so I'd like to think we're not some of the unrealistic house hunters but considering ours is sold and I still can't find any bloody thing I like in budget, I'm starting to wonder! I do get fed up when you see people walk into houses with awful decor and they moan about it like it's a permanent feature they'd have to live with forever. And definitely a touch of the green eyed monster when they say they have a 'budget' of £600k. Can't believe how much tiny flats are in some areas of the country, you'd get a mansion here (slight exaggeration) for the price people pay for a 1 bed flat in London.

Only to people if mistreated, I am reliably informed. (They do spit at each other.)
My sheep woman has an animal scanning business. She hates scanning alpacas and llamas because they're so ill tempered.

My friend has alpacas and we have looked after them.These particular ones are skittish rather than attacking, and have mellowed so that you can lead them to where you want to move them by playing a sort of Grandmothers Footsteps with them ( walk slow and stop occasionally - if you turn to look at them, they halt and pretend they aren’t following you.) Great admiration for the shearer though - that’s not an easy task, with a lot of kicks to avoid

Oh I’d forgotten about the woodman’s cottage on Grand Designs. The whole story was lovely. My dh loves that one, he’d love to build a house from scratch, if he had a clue what he was doing.

My wife and i always wonder what the people in the moving to the countryside show do for a living. They're in their 30s, have some massive budget, can live in rural Pembrokeshire and don't have to commute anywhere

The second homes programmes give me the rage. Pricing local people out of the market so that city folk can have somewhere to pop off to for five weekends a year. Whole communities are eradicated over the winter months! It's awful.

That pisses me off too. It's not at though they even use local shops when they are in their retreat, as most of the shops in these tiny communities don't carry Dom Perignon and fresh lobsters in stock . . .

In addition to all of the comments above, the other ones that get me are the ones who are selling their grimsby terrace and have a budget of 2.5 million, want 10 bedrooms and 14 acres and need a granny flat (or suitable shed to convert) for granny who was recently widowed and is obviously funding the move but who they think is more than happy to live in the semi converted garage with no heating or running water🙄

My exMiL was one of the mysterious off screen vendors on Phil and Kirsty. They showed the couple around her flat, made a cheeky offer to which she said fuck off - they shot a completely made up scene of the agent saying the vendor has accepted said cheeky offer and that Phil or Kirsty had got them the flat for cheap. All total bullshit and that's why I don't trust telly! 😂

It's when they claim to be downsizing and walk into a beautiful, spacious kitchen which is about the same size as the entire floor plan of my whole house and say 'it's a bit small...'

And when the couple are in their late 60s/70s looking for a home to retire to and they are shown a house on 4 levels with a spiral staircase and a steep, terraced garden.

And of course when the couple gives their maximum budget and they take them to see properties £30k plus over that. Because the vendors 'might be happy to negotiate'

The best/worst Escape to the Country episode I ever saw was years back with Catherine Gee presenting. The family were 'newly rich' shall we say. They wanted a period property but they just wanted to rip out all the period stuff to put modern stuff in. Her head nearly exploded when they admired a massive inglenook fireplace and and suggested that it would make an amazing bar instead.

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Surely the producers then had to say sorry, we didn’t get the flat after all? What must the buyers have thought?

I know, bonkers!

I can only imagine as a pp suggested that the buyers understand that 'some scenes are created for entertainment purposes'

Kirsty:"here's the dining room"
Buyer:"my dining table won't fit in here but everything else is worth considering.
Me (watching at home) : " buy a new fecking dining table, but we know that you'll be eating all your meals from a tray on your lap in front of the TV".

My most memorable Lx3 was in the last series. It was filmed at a house near mine. The woman of the couple hated the house so much she cried.

@INeedMoreCats - Yes! All through reading this thread I was thinking about that woman of questionable taste being shown around a house by Catherine Gee.
Catherine's face was a picture!

I have to switch off or I would find myself shouting at the TV .haha
I think that is how the producers want us to feel as it makes us keep coming back for more .

My house was filmed for Escape to the Country before we bought it. Fortunately they didn't like it! They wanted a house with a view.